• Craft and Criticism

    Music

    Songs for the Road: A Book Tour Playlist

    By Justin Taylor  August 28, 2015
    A Day in the Life

    On the Total Weirdness of the Book Tour

    By Justin Taylor  August 26, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of the New Modernists

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 26, 2015
    Criticism

    A History of Encounters with The Lover

    By Laura van den Berg  August 25, 2015
    Expert opinion

    On Having Your Book Turned into a Movie

    By Emma Donoghue  August 25, 2015
    Expert opinion

    When the Editor Becomes the Writer

    By Jill Bialosky  August 24, 2015
    Conversation

    I Write a Novel and Poems Come Out

    By Adam Fitzgerald  August 21, 2015
    Criticism

    Reclaiming David Foster Wallace from the Lit-Bros

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 20, 2015
    Conversation

    On the Intense Power of Literary Friendship

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2015
    Daily practice

    When I Quit Basketball to Become a Writer

    By Andrew Malan Milward  August 19, 2015
    Short story writers

    American Women: Masters of the Short Story

    By Bridget Read  August 19, 2015
    Daily practice

    The Pleasures of Destroying a Good Book

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 19, 2015
    Conversation

    Ottessa Moshfegh: What It Means to Be a Voice in the World

    By Tobias Carroll  August 18, 2015
    Feature

    Lolita: From Transgressive Lit to Pop Iconography

    By Rebecca Brill  August 18, 2015
    Dear aspiring writer

    Charles Bukowski’s Rules for Writing

    By Literary Hub  August 14, 2015
    The Art of Editing

    Let’s Not Get Too Holy: Editing Bukowski

    By Abel Debritto  August 14, 2015
    Essay

    On Writing Transnational Trans Characters

    By Tanwi Nandini Islam  August 13, 2015
    Daily practice

    Writers and Their Favorite Tools

    By Michele Filgate  August 13, 2015
    Op-Ed

    Claire Messud: Why I Write

    By Claire Messud  August 12, 2015
    Novelists

    In Praise of the Unpublished Drawer Novel

    By Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite  August 11, 2015
    Criticism

    Badass Women of Polish Mythology

    By Adrienne Celt  August 7, 2015
    Expert opinion

    Peter Carey: Punk Rock Novelist

    By Alexander Chee  August 6, 2015
    Conversation

    An Interview with Fred Moten, Pt. II

    By Literary Hub  August 6, 2015
    Conversation

    An Interview with Fred Moten, Part 1

    By Adam Fitzgerald  August 5, 2015
    Deep Dive

    In Defense of the Present Tense

    By Alexander Chee  August 5, 2015
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